Data Visualization

Science, Art and Data together

Abhijit Dasgupta

April 29, 2016

Science, Experiments, Data

The Scientific Method

The Scientific Method

How do you look at data?

Bar charts & Histograms

Pie charts

Scatter plots

Scatter plots

From graphs to visualizations

Data Storytelling

  • Data is not information!!!
  • Data has to be converted to information
  • That information can inform us, tell a story
  • Gain understanding, gain knowledge, plan for the future

  • Some of the best are New York Times and The Guardian

Data as Art

  • Humans understand pictures better than words
  • An artistic viewpoint helps express the story in data
  • Technology allows us to create dynamic (moving) pictures to tell the story

Where do we live?

A common visualization

Better?

Drugs in San Francisco

Plotting points

In 3-D

As art

What do STEM workers study?

A Sankey diagram

School funding per student

When should you work?

It turns out great minds don’t work alike!!!

A game changer

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes